6 Car Safety Features You’ll Find on Today’s Toyota Vehicles

Most modern Toyota vehicles come with Toyota Safety Sense, which is a package of impressive car safety features. These automated computerized features are designed to augment your own human senses and reflexes and avoid the most common threats on the road. To learn about these features in more detail, you can always ask for a full demonstration at our local Toyota dealer. In the meantime, here’s a quick introduction.

Dynamic Radar Cruise Control

Highway road accidents are some of the most dangerous because of the higher speeds. But with Toyota’s dynamic cruise control feature, you’re far safer on any highway.

When activated, your car monitors the distance from other vehicles at all times and even adjusts your speed as necessary to keep you at a preset distance. You can adjust this preset distance depending on the road conditions and weather. During winter, for example, it’s always better to maintain a larger gap.

Proactive Driving Assist

With this more extensive driving assist feature, your car can even help you by braking gently as the road curves. It will also augment our steering if needs be and generally help keep you safely in your lane.

Lane Departure Alert

Distracted drivers sometimes wander across lanes, potentially hitting other vehicles. Modern Toyota vehicles mitigate this risk by alerting you loudly and clearly any time you’re about to drift into another lane.

Lane Tracing Assist

More than just warn you, your car can also gently steer you back into the center of your lane and keep you there. When activated, the system achieves this by reading the lane markers.

Pre-Collision System

The advanced pre-collision system alerts you whenever there’s a chance you might hit an obstacle in front of you. This might be another car, a bicycle, or even a pedestrian.

It can also brake automatically if you fail to stop your car in time. And whenever automatic braking is used, the anti-lock braking system helps ensure you don’t skid and lose control.

Road Sign Assist

As we’re driving, awareness of changing road rules is another important safety factor. Your Toyota uses cameras to recognize and read all road signs, such as speed limit signs, Do Not Enter signs, yield signs, and stop signs. It then displays them on your dashboard, helping you to adapt to new speed limits and driving situations.

Our Local Toyota Dealer Can Show You More

The best way to understand these safety features is with a live demonstration. Someone at your local dealership will be happy to oblige. There are also many more excellent safety features built into modern Toyota vehicles to learn about.

Visit Toyota of Kingsport today for a full rundown of all the best Toyota features. We’re an award-winning family-run dealership in Kingsport, TN that’s been serving the region’s Toyota drivers since 1978.

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